George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman, Pygmalionand Saint Joan. With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth26 July 1856
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
Never forget that two blacks do not make a white.
Nothing can be unconditional; consequently nothing can be free.
Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them
Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements in a given society.
No American newspaper will print anything contrary to its own interests
Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward's art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm's way when you are weak. That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
Old men are dangerous it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world
O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.
She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the very worst
One touch of Darwin makes the whole world kin.
Morals being mostly only social habits and circumstantial necessities.